The phenomenal New York Times Bestseller by Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions.Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold...

Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment,...

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven...

Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined. Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do...

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Excerpt from Psychology and Psychic Culture For several years the author has taught psychology under conditions which necessitated its presentation in as plain and as interesting a manner as possible. He has endeavored to impose the same conditions...

Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 27: A Monthly Magazine; January, 1913 An interesting case of mental blindness is reported by Wil brand.25 A very cultured and well-read merchant enjoyed an extra ordinary visual memory. The features of the people...

Excerpt from University and School Extension: Psychology (Course A) III. Knowledge, Feeling, Will - the so-called Faculties of the mind, and the differences of the phenomena on which the distinction of faculties depends. Are there distinguishable and...

This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental sources become motivation-the inducement of behavior, feelings, and cognition. It...

Excerpt from Sensation and Pain The next figure (fig. 2) represents the nervous system of the Ascidian. There is a single nerve centre with two or three pairs of nerves communi cating with the mouth, vent and body of the crea ture. Now if these...

Excerpt from Physiological Psychology The scheme of the nervous system and its functions that the writer has sketched is based upon a careful study of the best authorities; but it is only fair to warn the reader that great differences of opinion upon...

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Excerpt from Selections From the Data of Ethics, Social Statics, Education Herbert Spencer, the celebrated English scientist and the founder of the system of Synthetic Philosophy, was born in Derby, England, April 27th, 1820. Both his father and...

Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits, not even grass or shady trees. The...

Excerpt from A History of Psychology, Vol. 3: Modern Psychology The scope and purpose of this volume, together with the general principles of Construction, have been explained in the preface to the second volume, to which this volume conforms. In...

Excerpt from Letter From George Combe to Francis Jeffrey, Esq. In Answer to His Criticism on Phrenology: Contained in No 88 of the Edinburgh Review Ann elaborate and ingenious criticism on my work on Phre nology has just appeared in the 88th number...

The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on...

Excerpt from Subordination in Historical Treatment One of the most distinguished of our recent predecessors in the walks of history, the late Bishop of London, Mandel] Creighton, has said with much force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes...

Excerpt from Harvard Psychological Studies, Vol. 4 In two previous articlesl upon the negative instruction the main interest was directed toward the effect of such instruction upon the suppression of imagery and the muscles of the vocal organs. The...

Excerpt from Abnormal Children: Nervous, Mischievous, Precocious, and Backward; A Book for Parents, Teachers, and Medical Officers of Schools The greatest event in the life of parents happens when a child is born to them. Their prayers go forth that...

Excerpt from Students' Syllabus in Sophomore Psychology, Vol. 1: Based on James' 'Psychology' And Thorndyke's 'Elements of Psychology' Post - hypnotic Suggestions. Experiments have been successfully tried of suggesting a certain action to a person in...

Excerpt from Graphology Graphology is the art of reading character from handwriting. That there is a relationship between character and style of penmanship has long been recognized, but until recently little has been done to formulate the principles...

Countless children throughout the world grow up without fathers. In this revised and updated edition of The Father, accompanied by a new preface, Luigi Zoja studies the reasons for this and assesses the contribution of this phenomenon to social and...

Excerpt from Outlines of Phrenology Phrenologists have endeavoured to avoid the obstacles presented by these modes of philosophizing, and have com pared manifestations of mind with development of brain, in a great number of individuals. The system...

Essays on the role of the body in self-consciousness, showing that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is built on a rich foundation of primitive, nonconceptual self-consciousness.These essays explore how the rich and sophisticated forms of...

Excerpt from Papers on Psycho-Analysis The subject of psycho-analysis, which may be defined as the study of unconscious mentation, was thus gradually extended as one field after another Opened up, and with increasing knowledge it became more and more...

Computational modeling is now ubiquitous in psychology, and researchers who are not modelers may find it increasingly difficult to follow the theoretical developments in their field. This book presents an integrated framework for the development and...

The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on...

In this 'riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication' (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or 'gray zone' states and, more importantly, he explains what those...

Excerpt from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology In reality, then, there are no religions which are false. All are true in their own fashion all answer, though in different ways, to the given conditions of human...

Excerpt from The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 The General Synthesis, setting out with an abstract state ment of the relation subsisting between every living organ ism and the external world, and arguing that all vital actions whatever, mental and...

Excerpt from Harvard Psychological Studies, Vol. 2 The work to be reported in future in the Harvard Psychological Studies will be work done in this new building, and while the re searches reported in the following pages were completed in the smaller...

Excerpt from The Mind and the Brain Since so many divisions are possible, at which shall we stop and say: this is the one which corresponds exactly to the Opposition of mind and matter? The choice is not easy to make. About the Publisher Forgotten...